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Comics in Academia?!

A three-day event with the author-artist team who created
Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution
 
February 5-7

UCI Illuminations Event Series
 
Individual event details below.
 
 
 
Lissa, coauthored by UCI anthropologist Sherine Hamdy, brings anthropological research to life in fictional comic form, combining scholarly insights and accessible, visually-rich storytelling to foster greater understanding of global politics, inequalities, and solidarity.

Lissa follows the paths of two young girls, Anna and Layla, who strike up an unlikely friendship in Cairo that crosses class, cultural, and religious divides. Their friendship is put to the test when each faces a medical crisis that reveal stark differences in their perspectives...until revolutionary unrest in Egypt changes their lives forever. Using the grammar of comics - page, panel, gutters, image, dialogue, captions - to render ethnographic research in a multi-modal format, the authors have collaborated with artists to transform their research on kidney disease in Egypt, and breast cancer genetic screening in the US into a compelling human story about mortality, risk, and hope across cultures.

Authors include Hamdy and Coleman Nye, assistant professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies, Simon Fraser Institute. Illustrated by Sarula Bao and Caroline Brewer.

For further information, please contact Cory Hodges, hodgesc@uci.edu.
 
 
 
 
05
 
FEB
 
   
 
Q/A with Artists-Illustrators on the Collaborative Process of Creating the Graphic Novel Lissa
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Colloquium Room
 
 
 
 
 
06
 
FEB
 
   
 
Film-Screening of "The Making of Lissa: Behind the Scenes" and Q/A with Filmmaker, Artists-Illustrators
 
Panel with Julia Lupton, Jonathan Alexander, Kat Lewin, Tarek Mohamed | 4:30-7:30 p.m. | UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom | Register
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
FEB
 
   
 
Comics as Ethnographic Method: Roundtable Discussion with Lissa Team: Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Anne Brackenbury, Caroline Brewer, Sarula Bao, Francesco Dragone
 
Discussants: Johanna Shapiro, (Medical Humanities) Jonathan Alexander (English), Antoinette LaFarge (Visual Arts) | 3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321 | Register